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I was searching the 2001 Google Index and found this old Macromedia.com site of the day showcase on my old company ishophere.com. It is a really fun look back. We built the Ishophere.com shopping service in Flash 5 using Macromedia Generator in 2000 and we got site of the day on March 14 2001.Theodore E. Patrick, project developer, Ishophere
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Monday, September 29, 2008
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For the readers of my blog, I got a "Friends Of Ted" discount for Adobe MAX NA 2008. The discount enables full registration at $1295 and is the lowest price for the MAX NA event if you missed Early Bird registration. Please feel free to share the discount code with friends and coworkers as the code is time based.
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Everything you need to know to architect real-time and collaborative applications with Flex, AIR, BlazeDS and LCDS. This UI centric session will reveal the power Flex possesses when combined with realtime enabled Java applications. Advanced high level concepts and frameworks will be discussed since they are key in creating large applications with complex behavior. PureMVC will be shown in examples, as well as how to roll your own "assembler" or DataService like implementations with BlazeDS. Focus will also be given to creating re-usable UI components that are real-time aware. Learn how to tap the messaging foundation built into BlazeDS or LCDS for your next collaborative Flex or AIR app.
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Building flex applications requires a strong back end to support it. In this session we will discuss your different options for working with the popular Hibernate framework from Flex. We will also cover some of the issues you may run into when working with Hibernate and Flex, configuration details, and how to use hibernate lazy loading to increase the performance of your applications. This topic will cover Flex, BlazeDS, and Hibernate.
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Flash Player has an open bug database so that anyone can log a bug regarding Flash Player 10. So here is what you need to do:
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If you are in the Boston area next week I highly encourage you to attend The Ajax Experience. It is looking to be a great event with an all star speaker lineup and some great technical sessions. Adobe is sponsoring the event and in partnership with Ajaxian.com, we are recording every conference session in HD using Flash Video. The recorded sessions will be released over time in partnership with Ajaxian.com to expand the conference content to the millions of developers around the globe who cannot attend.
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Friday, September 19, 2008
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Now remember use the right tool for the right job...
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Thursday, September 18, 2008
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The Premiere Express team is now mashing up the NFL. Pick your team, grab the latest highlights, and make your own highlight video on nfl.com. It is great to see video editing go online and great to give the power to end users to write the web with premium content.
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
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In my role of MAX Content Lead, I manage speakers and session content for MAX North America, Europe, and Japan. As an event we need to provide benefits to our speakers who contribute to MAX and make the event great. Today a respected speaker blogged about our seemingly inconsistent policy, so I wanted to clear the air and explain. Lets start with the benefits for speakers at MAX 2008:
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008
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Take your Flex applications to the next level. Add streaming video, live interactivity and push technology to your projects, all using the acclaimed open source Red5 Flash server. Project leader Chris Allen will walk attendees though building a Red5 application using the new Jedai Framework (http://jedai.googlecode.com). They will learn how to harness the power of RTMP in Flash to build cutting edge content including multi-user games, live video chat and more.
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Monday, September 15, 2008
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This is the last argument in the addEventListener method and it just might be one of the most important. Whenever you subscribe to events you have the option to set useWeakReferences to false (the default) or to true (unfortunately not the default). What seems incredible to me is the fact that this is the last argument and that it defaults to false.
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In this session, Senior Developers RJ Owen and Brad Umbaugh will explore in depth exactly what happens every time a component is created and rendered in Flex. We'll dive straight into everything about components from the events that are
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Friday, September 12, 2008
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This demo-oriented session will showcase the new features that are coming in Flash Player 10, code-named “Astro.” You will see 3D, custom filters and effects, the new text layout engine and a lot more working together to make better, faster, cooler RIAs. You will also learn about the features that increase performance like Vector, the drawing API and visual performance enhancements. Throughout the session you will be able to see
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Thursday, September 11, 2008
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Tommorrow, Sept 12, is the entry deadline for the MAX 2008 Awards.
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008
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During the session the functionality of the Flex Builder 3 Profiler will be explored through both background lecture, and most importantly various Flex Builder projects tuned to highlight key features of the Profiler.
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You built a custom Flex component! Now, you want to sell it, or you might want to release it open source. Regardless of your intent, you have many things to consider before throwing it out there to the ravenous Flex developer community. Flexible and extensible APIs are needed to ensure that developers can add the extra functionality they need. Documentation must clearly explain all the properties and methods that are available. Examples need to fully explain the most common use-cases. Finally, developers will want to contact you when they run into trouble or if they have feature requests and suggestions, so you need to provide a communications channel for them. Learn the important steps one must take to release a custom component and get people using it.
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A detailed look into efficiency practices of conference organizers including those at Adobe MAX.
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Tuesday, September 09, 2008
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Similar to the Java Reflection API, ActionScript Reflection can do the following:
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Cogs is a hierarchical state machine library for use with AS3.0 projects. All interactive applications have a lifecycle of discrete states. Cogs extends the State Design pattern, supports nested states, hierarchical state transitions, enter exit and pulse actions. Freeing you to spend more time working on the core logic. We'll show the lifecycle of a media player.
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If you haven't taken a walk through the MAX NA sessions scheduler yet, you should. There are quite a few sessions on "Thermo" and Flex 4. MAX will be the big unveiling of the "Thermo" product including the real product name, "Thermo" is just a codename.
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Saturday, September 06, 2008
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I put together a detailed list of initially supported events. These map to the events available in Flash Player 9+.
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Friday, September 05, 2008
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One of the great things about the Flex platform is that you can get up and running with good-looking GUIs quickly. But what if you want to go beyond the built-in component capabilities and add some extra richness to your UI? What about animated effects to make your application more dynamic? This session will cover various graphics and animation techniques that you can use in your Flex development to create applications that aren't just rich clients; they're filthy rich.
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Thursday, September 04, 2008
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Now that I have entered the world of management I have been feeling a bit lost without a project to code on as a hobby. For the past 2 years at Adobe I have been thinking about a simple light framework for building apps using XML/AS3. Whether it turns into anything or just a big pile of experiments, who knows. The plan is to dedicate evening time to "BX" and blog about my finding regardless of where they go. The first stop for "BX" is looking at events and rethinking them.
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NBC just launched an NFL application for watching football online using Flash Player.
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Adobe has told you to "file a bug" so many times you want to throw things at them. Wouldn't it be better if you could just fix the thing yourself and show the rest of the world how brilliant you are? Come to this session to learn about the SDK in detail: how it's organized, where the docs are, who to bribe to get your patch approved, etc. Matt's no longer capable of coding in the SDK, show him a thing or two and get ready to make your own contribution to the great Flex community.
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Amazon launched a new on demand video service using Adobe Flash Player today.
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Wednesday, September 03, 2008
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I have been playing with an internal build of AIR targeting a release later this year. The new release has some great features under the hood for HTML/JS developers. Given the Webkit browser engine was used in AIR, we are refreshing it in the next AIR release. The updated engine even in early internal alpha passed the ACID 3 HTML/CSS tests with a 100/100 score.
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Tuesday, September 02, 2008
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Learn how to use the open source Flex SDK to improve your programming and solve problems. Introduction to the Flex source code explaining the class hierarchy, compositional classes, and the importance of interfaces.
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How to put together a team, and ways to communicate with free tools that are in the community.
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Create accessible custom component and make existing components like ILOG elixir accessible.
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Adobe ColdFusion is one of the best ways to get data to and from your database to your Flex application. Come find out how to use Remoting, ValueObjects and CFC's to quickly and efficiently get data to and from your database to the front end!
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What is E4X? How do I use it? Why would I use it? When should I use it? Viewers should have a basic understanding of XML (know what an element or attribute is), some knowledge of actionscript (preferrably AS3), and an interest in working with XML.
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Learn how to craft ActionScript libraries using advanced techniques. Use custom metadata to make your code easier to read and provide greater code-reuse. And harness the power of the Proxy class to give subclasses an easier way to access data.
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This presentation is a case study about using a set of standard technologies including Flex to build an SOA application that provides generic access control services. This application's UI was built on Flex and the server side was built using standard Java technologies (Jersey, Spring Framework and JPA). The interaction between the client and the server is through RESTful APIs. We will highlight various challenges and lessons learned from this project as well as some of the design decisions.
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In this talk, Stucki will cover all the various aspects of what goes into a framework. How to code, what to code and who to code with. He'll pull this knowledge from his extensive experience in frameworks such as Degrafa, OpenFlux, and Plexiglass. He'll share what he finds works well to what does not work at all.
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Using RubyAMF to build AMF services in Rails and how to use these services in Flex.
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Do your applications start to grow and become an unwieldy set of interdependent parts?
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Adobe Flex that aims to bring complete simplicity to RIA development. Swiz provides Inversion of Control, event handing, and simple life cycle for asynchronous remote methods. In contrast to other major frameworks for Flex, Swiz imposes no JEE patterns on your code, no repetitive folder layouts, and no boilerplate code on your development. Swiz represents best practices learned from the top RIA developers at some of the best consulting firms in the industry, enabling Swiz to be simple, lightweight, and extremely productive.
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PlexiGlass is a sub-project of OpenFlux using the same reusable MVC based components but replaces the view with a 3D renderer. In this session you'll find out what PlexiGlass offers, see examples, learn how to get started and how you can contribute back.
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This session covers the tools and workflows you need to produce and stream great HD video in the Flash player and Flex. Topics will include a hands-on look at cameras and lighting, recording formats, and pitfalls when working with high definition footage. Also see Flash Media Server 3 in action, and how to exploit it's H.264 streaming in Flex. Finally, get a look at how to leverage tools like Adobe After Effects to add cool Flex friendly effects, and the best compression encoder settings for producing super lightweight HD files.
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On Sunday, Linda (fiancee) and I ran 13.1 miles at the Disney 1/2 marathon in Anaheim. It was a really great weekend and after light training for 2 months we were prepared. We finished in 2:43:32 hours, pretty good enough for my first half marathon, eh. The course wound through DisneyLand out to the Ducks and Angels stadium and back. 
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The MAX team met this morning and we decided to extend the Early Bird registration til Sept 19. Make sure to register and get a discount before the new deadline.
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